ADRIAN — The Adrian Dominican Sisters have announced that they will host an open forum to discuss the proposal to put an oil-processing plant in Heritage Park.

The forum will take place at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, at the Weber Center, 1257 E. Siena Heights Drive, on the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse campus, according to a news release from the Adrian Dominican Sisters.

The forum will feature a panel of area residents with expertise in biology, health care, volatile gases, the region’s geography and the impact of oil drilling on the Irish Hills, according to the release.

The forum will provide an opportunity for citizens of the Adrian community “to learn about the potential effects of siting an oil-processing plant in the city and to ask questions of concern,” the news release said.

Heritage Park is owned by the city but is in Raisin Township.

On Jan. 22, the Adrian City Commission tabled a resolution to authorize the city administrator to enter into an agreement with Savoy Energy Limited Partnership of Traverse City to allow Savoy to locate an oil “central production and processing facility” in Heritage Park and also to install an underground pipeline to bring oil to the facility from nearby properties.

Savoy has leased approximately 1,184 acres of city-owned land, including Heritage Park, for oil and gas exploration. Savoy drilled a well in Heritage Park last year. The oil derrick had been removed from that well by early December of last year, but a check Friday revealed that it has been reinstalled.

Savoy also drilled an oil well on city-owned land along M-52 a short distance southwest of the intersection of M-52 and Howell Highway.

The city commission is expected to consider the oil facility agreement again at the commission’s Feb. 18 meeting.